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JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON (Columbia). Ex-Con Cash recorded these songs at California's Folsom Prison, and the echo of prisoners' applause against concrete walls adds a bitter and powerful background. A guard's announcement that "88419 is wanted in Reception" serves as sharp counterpoint to...
The great majority of those awaiting execution are Negroes-a proportion that has held steady ever since prison records were first kept. Between 1930 and the present, 2,066 blacks have been put to death, against 1,751 whites. Among the commonest capital charges against Negroes, especially in the South...
Then he clashed with De Gaulle over the scheduled execution of a leader in the Algerian generals' putsch. De Gaulle gave in, granting clemency, when Pompidou threatened to resign. From then on, Pompidou determined to venture farther away from De Gaulle's towering shadow. In 1967, he ordered...
LUCERNE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Aug. 14-Sept. 8) is long on notable artists (Artur Rubinstein, Herbert von Karajan, William Steinberg, Isaac Stern) and short on program ideas. Still, the air is crisp and the execution usually exemplary at the picturesque lakeside resort.
There has not been an execution in the U.S. in more than a year; last week the Supreme Court made it more likely that there will never be another.